What’s the matter with Kansas (this week).
October 22nd, 2008 9:44 pm by Kelly GarbatoI rarely watch the local news, but happened to have it on in the background last night. These two stories ran almost back-to-back:
Racial Slur on Receipt Shocks Family
Last Edited: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008, 9:53 AM CDT
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — A shoe return deeply offended a family, got a worker fired, and the Justice Department involved.
College student Keith Slater, 22, came to Oak Park Mall on Friday night with his mother and sister. He bought a pair of $80 shoes. But, quickly found a better deal.
So, he went back to the original store, Journeys, and returned his first pair. When he looked at the receipt, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Amazed and just shocked,” said Keith Slater, the man’s father.
Rather than the man’s name, it reads “dumb n*****.”
As in, the cashier entered “dumb nigger” in the “GUEST” field. Yeah.
The other incident – which apparently is so ho-hum that I can’t find it on the local Fox affiliate’s website – involves a string of vandalized Obama/Biden signs along Ward Parkway (for those not in the know, Ward Parkway is an upscale, mansion-lined boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, along the Kansas border). Rather than the predictable slurs, such as “Barack Hussein Obama” or “Osama Obama” (or “dumb nigger”), the vandals spray-painted “USSR” across the signs.
So…I guess we’ve moved on from racism and xenophobia to ’50s-era McCarthyism and xenophobia? Um, yay progress?
Well, at least a Kansan has yet to slaughter a black bear cub and staple Obama signs to her forehead. Nope, that was North Carolina.
There’s your small-town, “real America” American values right there, Ms. Palin.
Sigh.
**sob**
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